Over 6,000 new care beds announced for continuing care centres in Alberta
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EDMONTON, AB – The Government of Alberta has announced more care beds for communities across the province, while bringing back “a new and improved” Affordable Supportive Living Initiative (ASLI) program.
The program allows the government to provide up to 50 per cent of funding for building costs, followed by operational costs to run continuing care facilities.
Over the next four years, $400 million in operational funding will be set for new publicly funded continuing care beds. In total, over 6,000 beds will be added or replaced at continuing care centres in Alberta.
24 communities were identified through a procurement process that requires operators to pay for the capital cost of building new beds. This year, 343 beds will be added in Calgary, Edmonton, High Level, Medicine Hat, Red Deer, Valleyview and Westlock. That’s in addition to the 2,600 beds added in 26 other communities in 2020.
